karinvail

Oh, interesting! What are the procedures? I've never timed a car myself, I just watched our friend do it, but it took him a few times before he thought he had it where it was where he thought was right, so I'm not sure he's real good with that thing either! LOL. there were 2 wires that hooked to the battery pos/neg and a clip that went onto the #1 cylinder spark plug wire - and he did the timing with the vacuum advance unhooked I think. I think :-\

Yea, I've been through the archives and I'm just not sure on this one. We don't have a timing light, so after the engine swap, we adjusted the timing as best we could by ear until we could get to a friend who had a timing light. Well, we did that - by the light we had it 20deg adv, so we timed it to 2deg adv. It was running not bad before, I just wanted to make sure it was OK. But, now at this setting it's a gutless wonder. Trying to get up to highway speed is real fun (NOT). It feels like it's pulling backwards on me If the distributor was in a tooth off, could it make it the 20deg or so off? We didn't put in the dist. ourselves - it was in the engine already from the wrecked car we bought for the engine. I was liking it much better the way we had it set by ear though

and that was what I first tried - I used 1/4 of a can of the stuff and didn't get one bit of sticker off One sticker is plastic coated, the other is metallic. There is the 'left-overs' from a third sticker that the WD40 didn't touch either - the residue looks like glue on that one though

I didn't know that you could get spray can's mixed special! Very neat! I'm going to take Torxxx's idea with the gas door into some paint stores and see what I can come up with. And, I do have tea tree oil, so I'll give that a whirl on the sticker removal too

going through the parts that were thrown in the 'trunk' of my car when I bought it. These are still to be defined. Any ideas? One has an R on it and one has an L on it.

the previous owner of my car painted the wagon wheels flat black and I knew I had to repaint them...... BEFORE: White is not my color, so I didn't want to put them back to 'original'. So, this is my upadated version of the wagon wheel. I think they turned out pretty good!

I have a y-pipe to straight pipe all teh way back to a big muffler with a huge tailpipe. It sounds really good at an idle, but is way loud when the motor rev's and then it has a backfire when shifting or letting off the gas (which I hate). Sometimes I wish for the quiet stock stuff back, but it does give a little more power with this set-up.......

The WD40 works great for sticker residue, but doesn't touch these stickers. I will try the hair dryer though (I don't have a heat gun). Will have to string out an extention cord Do you know where the paint color code is on an 86 GL wagon?

Are there matching spray paints for the Soob colors? I've looked at the auto parts stores and WalMart, and they don't carry much for Soob colors other than the white and silver. I am needing the touch-up color for the burgundy/maroon color on an 86 GL. Subaru dealership? The previous owner put some stickers on the paint of this car (one of my pet peeves, stickers are OK on windows because they are easy to remove, but I hate stickers on the paint unless they are 'timeless' stickers related to the car like 4WD or something). These stickers are stuck on GOOD too - any ideas on sticker removal so I don't mess up the finish underneath too bad?

I wasn't able to view it last night when I downloaded it, but it came right up this morning no problems (probably because the connection isn't as busy with other surfers at this time of day?) - my computer only has a 33.6k modem. I thought I recognized some of that background - especially the ''castle''! Then I noticed you are from Concrete! (We are in Hamilton). Fun video - who's the music playing with it?

I will second the 15W-40. We've always used Chevron Delo 15W-40 in all our rigs (Logging trucks, Suburban, Subaru's), and my brother-in-law uses it religiously in his logging truck and Toyota 4-runner too. Our Suburban and his Yo have over 250,000 miles on them and still running strong and you know those logging trucks need good oil because those engines are vital and EXPENSIVE!. I wouldn't use anything else.

What is a Leone? I've not heard that one - is it yet another nickname?

I had the digi dash in my very first Soob - an 85 4x4 turbo sedan. I *hated* that digi dash after the newness of it wore off. It was hard to see in bright sunlight with your sunglasses on and it would flicker sometimes - the gas guage never worked right. It was a major PIA. I would never buy a car with a digi dash again....... Although, I'd love to have that car in a wagon now-a-days. Man, could that car GO. I do miss it for that...... (but not that *$ digi dash!)

My cable is not just right in the adjustment and I'm not sure if it needs tightened or loosened...... It was very light feeling (very easy to push in pedal) before I hooked the hill hold back up, but didn't engage the clutch until it was at least 3/4 of the way released. I hooked the hill hold up and just snugged it up, didn't tighten it much past taking the slack up and now my clutch feels different (stiffer I assume because of the return spring on the hill-hold cable). It is a little harder to shift though - the car shimmies a little when I take off in 1st gear which it didn't do before and it doesn't shift as smooth. I'm guessing I need to tighten the adjustment on the clutch cable? The hill hold works, but I don't want to fry my clutch with the wrong adjustment.......

My first thought was EA81 style wheels (which would rub on the caliper) on an EA82.......

That's a good idea - I'll pull it back onto the ramps and run it w/o the cap and see if that helps. I think this car has been on the ramps longer than it's been on the road since I got it

Well, that's a story in itself The former owner disabled the heater when the buttons quit working - and hooked it up so only the defroster works and that is hooked up with a wire to the defroster flap. Yea, major PIA and not cool to have a wire sticking out beside the steeriing column . The defroster works OK though, so I guess I can just wear a coat when it's cold outsiden as I have NO CLUE what he did in there and how to fix it (if I can). At least we don't get too cold usually here in the Pacific NW .....

'You know what - that might just be it - hmmm. Maybe I should pull it out and have the radiator shop flush it out real good. The previous owner put stop leak in it before he listed it for sale.... we replaced the radiator already, and had to replace the motor because he was hiding the fact that it had a cracked block. I bet it is the stop leak stuff that I could SEE in the coolant when I drained it the first time

I did that when I first put in the anti-freeze (let it run w/o the cap until I couldn't add any more) - I don't see a leak (other than the small oil leak in the middle/front of the engine) and there doesn't seem to be a HG issue (good power - actually GREAT power with the non-stock exhaust, no anti-freeze burning smell, no anti-freeze in oil, no oil in anti-freeze, no funny color smoke out tailpipe, etc.) This engine has pretty good timing belt covers too - doesn't look like it's ever been overheated (at least not enough to melt covers). My son says that I should worry about the loud exhaust over a little gurgling noise in the heater core, LOL. He hates my exhaust. I can't really call it a muffler, because it doesn't muffle much, LOL.

What causes the heater core to make bubbling/gurling noises? Trapped air? I sure hope I don't have to take out this heater core - I did that in an 84 Soob I had a while back and I remember what a PIA it was :-\

what's the advantage of a coil like these?

My engine isn't pinging, but I run premium - I've never replaced an O2 sensor before except in our 88 Suburban - does an engine from an 85 GL wagon have one even? (The car is an 86, but the engine is an 85 EA82)

I know - my bad. Hubby and I were trying to get it done ASAP. There are several things I would have LIKED to do too (like degrease the engine compartment!) before the swap, but we just tried to get it done - being w/o a car is a major PIA. Hubby started to change the tranny fluid in his Suburban and the parts store had given me the wrong seal/filter for it, grrrr. So, I had to hitch a ride with hubby at 3:30am on his way to work in his log truck so I could borrow a car to exhange the kit so he could put it back together. What a pain Never again do I want to be a one car home! At least the seal/belts are something I feel like I could personally tackle during the week sometime.

I am also in the pacific NW and have a friend in Bellingham - a friend of her husband's is a Subaru mechanic and buys fixer-uppers to resell. I personally love the GL 4x4 Wagons and they are fairly plentiful here in the pacific NW. Finding a good one is sometimes tricky because they have not all been loved like we would like. The *first* thing I look for is the front drive axles and see if the boots on the CV joints are intact. I had a car (an 83 DL Wagon) that went through so many CV joints it was unreal and made it NO FUN to own. A set a year, no joke. And, at $100 for a reman. axle or $180 per side if you have LesSchwab do it, it's not cheap. Find one with good axles and hopefully it's not an 'axle eater' like my last one was! My latest one has good axle boots and they don't look brand-new, so I can assume it's not going to be one of those axle eaters The next thing I would look for is the front timing belt cover - if they are melted and drooping, then that engine has been overheated and has a good chance of having problems. I wouldn't buy another Soob that's had an overheating issue myself. The electric fans sometimes will quit coming on by themselves because of a sensor in the radiator that can go out - a lot of Soobs in the 80's that I've been around/seen have had a manual over-ride switch wired in by it's previous owner so you can turn the fan on when you need it or leave it off when you don't need it. Sometimes this is a blessing, sometimes it's a headache if you don't remember it. Look around and be choosy for your $1000. You should be able to find a pretty decent Soob for that around there. Meridian street (used to be Guide Meridian) in B'ham has loads of used car dealers if you head north toward Lynden - I often see a bunch of used Soob's along there...... Good luck! Karin

ya, I've lived with leaking engines all my driving life and I hate it I'm assuming that a leak there might cause problems with the timing belts and should be fixed soon? I wish it would have shown that it leaked before we put the motor in - it would have been lots easier to put a new gasket there with the engine on the hoist